Join us for an interactive event at the FAO Science and Innovation Forum!

14 October 2022 | 12:00 CEST 

Virtual event: Register here

ENGLISH – FRENCH – SPANISH

This event will highlight how the food and knowledge systems of Indigenous hunter-gatherers can support their food and nutrition security while enhancing biodiversity and supporting climate resilience. It will present how to better understand and adequately address the challenges that Indigenous hunter-gatherer societies currently face to sustain their food systems and livelihoods.

Counting for about two per cent of the Indigenous Peoples’ population worldwide, Indigenous hunter-gatherers are among the most invisible societies in the world. However, their food and knowledge systems hold treasures of sustainability and resilience that are critical to recognize in order to ensure their survival.

AGENDA

OPENING REMARKS 

Ismahane Elouafi, Chief Scientist, FAO

Vital Bambanze, Batwa people, Expert for Africa to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII)

OVERVIEW: THE IMPORTANCE OF KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS AND INNOVATION IN INDIGENOUS HUNTER-GATHERERS SOCIETIES

Jennifer Hays, Professor, Arctic University of Norway, Hunter Gatherer Education Research and Advocacy Group (HG-EDU)

Sherry Pictou, Mi’kmaw people, Ărramăt Project, member of IPBES Task Force on Indigenous and Local Knowledge

TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS

The role of Indigenous youth in Indigenous hunter-gatherers societies

José Martial Betoulet, Sangha-Sangha, Ndima-Kali association

Béatrice Babona, BaAka people, Ndima-Kali association

The importance of wild species for Indigenous hunter-gatherers

Charlotte Milbank, Interdisciplinary PhD student, University of Cambridge

The importance of storytelling in the preservation of knowledge systems of Indigenous hunter-gatherers 

Marilyn Ngales, Agta people, Director, Community Outreach & Service Learning at Lyceum of the Philippines University, The Philippines

WAY FORWARD

Edmond Dounias, Representative of IRD for Vietnam and the Philippines, the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD)

Yon Fernandez de Larrinoa, Head, Indigenous Peoples Unit, FAO  

FACILITATOR

Anne Brunel, Co-Coordinator, Global-Hub Indigenous Peoples food Systems, Indigenous Peoples Unit, FAO

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